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lydyWell, Chap. 3 of Bio doesn't look to be any easier than Chap. 2. I only got 95% on the quiz (20 questions, so I missed one). Given that it was open book and I had just gone through the chapter again, that's just not so good. I think that biochemistry and I will never be good friends.
Chap. 3 is all about cell function, including cell respiration. More biochemistry. I read it and comprehend almost none of it. That's actually a fascinating sensation, but I'd rather try it out in an interesting fiction book that I'm not reading for class. Having nice, discrete facts go mush is very bizarre. This isn't even flash card material, yet. I haven't parsed it well enough to tear it down into flash card sized info bites. I'm used to retaining a bit more detail from a simple read, and this was more than just a simple one. I was trying to concentrate. Maybe going to school isn't like falling off a bicycle, after all.
I'm hoping for a hard-fought A in this class, but I'm thinking it'll be more like a hard-fought B. I would hate for it to be a C a whole lot. Ds and Fs don't bear thinking about. I'd like to hate my Psych course, but just at the moment, I don't have the energy for it. Keeping up with the reading in both classes is about to become very difficult. Thank god for Algebra. (I am experiencing cognitive dissonance, now. All in all, I'm wondering if now is really the best time to be reading The Butterfly Kid.)
Chap. 3 is all about cell function, including cell respiration. More biochemistry. I read it and comprehend almost none of it. That's actually a fascinating sensation, but I'd rather try it out in an interesting fiction book that I'm not reading for class. Having nice, discrete facts go mush is very bizarre. This isn't even flash card material, yet. I haven't parsed it well enough to tear it down into flash card sized info bites. I'm used to retaining a bit more detail from a simple read, and this was more than just a simple one. I was trying to concentrate. Maybe going to school isn't like falling off a bicycle, after all.
I'm hoping for a hard-fought A in this class, but I'm thinking it'll be more like a hard-fought B. I would hate for it to be a C a whole lot. Ds and Fs don't bear thinking about. I'd like to hate my Psych course, but just at the moment, I don't have the energy for it. Keeping up with the reading in both classes is about to become very difficult. Thank god for Algebra. (I am experiencing cognitive dissonance, now. All in all, I'm wondering if now is really the best time to be reading The Butterfly Kid.)
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Web courses
Date: 2007-09-14 06:52 pm (UTC)And this sounds like one of those subjects that needs live interaction.
OK, this is crazy, but.... Can you drop it and take it again when you can also sign up to audit a REAL course beforehand or concurrently?
I've been teaching Photoshop, etc, in a university-based Professional Development Center. My classes were live. Several students have volunteered that the program's non-live courses (on other topics) were basically worthless.